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points by jaggederest 1 day ago | 0 comments

Dimensional analysis is a superpower honestly. Even in a software engineering career it's saved me from massive issues quite routinely

[–] vpmadd52huq 1 day ago

Mandatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/3038/

[–] dllu 1 day ago

Also: https://xkcd.com/687/

[–] NetMageSCW 1 day ago

The HP 48G / 50G provides incredible unit handling. My main use for it these days.

[–] selimthegrim 1 day ago

Any war stories?

[–] jaggederest 1 day ago

Requests per second, bytes per request, bytes per second should all match up very closely under dimensional analysis or something is drastically wrong ;)

Little's law is another related phenomenon that is super critical. Measuring things when the units don't match has bitten me more than once.

[–] selimthegrim 1 day ago

Concur on Little's law